-'The Fixer' 1966-is one of the most powerful works(Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award)

-'The Tenants' 1971The Magic BarrelGenre : Family Drama

Style : Direct

Tone : Objective,Sympathetic

+ elements of Jewish culture"It seems to me that the writer's most important task, no matter what the current theory of man, or his prevailing mood, is to recapture his image as human being as each of us in his secret heart knows it to be."Bernard Malamud

One of the most prominent figures in Jewish American literature

-fascination with Jewish traditions & history -Brooklyn high school-the horrors of the Holocaust-Born: April 26, 1914Brooklyn, New York